Yes, I'm that board at work (kidding) to be already submitting my THIRD theory of the week. It's my shortest one yet, but I think you'll like it.
I was just on IGN.com and reading a segment they call "Flashback" review, and they where going over the episode "Orientation" and I started thinking back to season 2, the Hatch, Desmond, and most importantly...how the hell did the fail-safe even work?
Well here's the way I think it happened, it kind of counters my last theory about the ghost cast (though I still think that would be possible), but hear me out. What if, when Juliet made the core explode, the built up energy of the Swan pocket somehow froze the blast in time? When, years later, Desmond turns the fail-safe key, there's absolutely no explanation to how the hell it's contained or the hatch implodes. We're left to assume that the key just kind of destroyed the source, so what if...it WAS jughead all along like we all thought that was buried with the hatch that would contain the blast.
Think about turning the key as turning the wheel, it acts as the exact OPPOSITE of the Orchid like a lot of people theorized. When you look at his situation, Des is temporarily thrown out of time into his former self, and then flashes back (which admittedly I still have no freaking clue to what that means) naked to the island and in the Jungle. Ben and Locke on the other hand turn the wheel and end up in the future fully clothed and off the island in a desert (thankfully, they might be great actors but no one wants to see a naked Terry O' Quinn...Emily D'Ravin on the other hand lol...).
So what if somehow the swan fail-safe was able to activate some type of window into the present, where the explosion from the Incident could be used again in a time paradox to stop itself from going haywire. It's safe to assume that once the bomb went off the DHARMA team had enough time to burry it and create the station again, but pushing the button had to contain the energy...but how? I guess the best guess is that the swan almost acts like a time machine where it keeps the explosion...and possibly the losties in a state of suspension (or at least explodes, but the blast is somehow still stuck in a moment) until the key is turned or the button's not pushed. I think the Orchid orientation video with the bunnies best supports my theory. But seriously...something about the fail-safe is crucially important and I feel like we've been forgetting the red harring of the looking-glass being the source of communication going out. The purple sky did something, and besides changing De! smond, we found out in seasons 3 and 4 it did not move the island, just made it visible to Pennies team...but what ELSE happened?
ENJOY!!!
I was just on IGN.com and reading a segment they call "Flashback" review, and they where going over the episode "Orientation" and I started thinking back to season 2, the Hatch, Desmond, and most importantly...how the hell did the fail-safe even work?
Well here's the way I think it happened, it kind of counters my last theory about the ghost cast (though I still think that would be possible), but hear me out. What if, when Juliet made the core explode, the built up energy of the Swan pocket somehow froze the blast in time? When, years later, Desmond turns the fail-safe key, there's absolutely no explanation to how the hell it's contained or the hatch implodes. We're left to assume that the key just kind of destroyed the source, so what if...it WAS jughead all along like we all thought that was buried with the hatch that would contain the blast.
Think about turning the key as turning the wheel, it acts as the exact OPPOSITE of the Orchid like a lot of people theorized. When you look at his situation, Des is temporarily thrown out of time into his former self, and then flashes back (which admittedly I still have no freaking clue to what that means) naked to the island and in the Jungle. Ben and Locke on the other hand turn the wheel and end up in the future fully clothed and off the island in a desert (thankfully, they might be great actors but no one wants to see a naked Terry O' Quinn...Emily D'Ravin on the other hand lol...).
So what if somehow the swan fail-safe was able to activate some type of window into the present, where the explosion from the Incident could be used again in a time paradox to stop itself from going haywire. It's safe to assume that once the bomb went off the DHARMA team had enough time to burry it and create the station again, but pushing the button had to contain the energy...but how? I guess the best guess is that the swan almost acts like a time machine where it keeps the explosion...and possibly the losties in a state of suspension (or at least explodes, but the blast is somehow still stuck in a moment) until the key is turned or the button's not pushed. I think the Orchid orientation video with the bunnies best supports my theory. But seriously...something about the fail-safe is crucially important and I feel like we've been forgetting the red harring of the looking-glass being the source of communication going out. The purple sky did something, and besides changing De! smond, we found out in seasons 3 and 4 it did not move the island, just made it visible to Pennies team...but what ELSE happened?
ENJOY!!!
